Posted on 05/03/2014 6:38:45 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
... Our security forces are fighting mercenaries of foreign states, terrorists and criminals, Turchynov said in a statement.
One of the downed helicopters was hit by a surface-to-air missile, the Ukrainian Security Service said, calling it a sophisticated weapon that undercut Russias claims the city was simply under the control of armed locals. The agency said its forces were fighting highly skilled foreign military men in Slovyansk....
Ukrainian troops met fierce resistance Friday morning but managed to take control of nine checkpoints on the roads around Slovyansk, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said. He called on the insurgents to lay down their arms and release their hostages.
We are ready to negotiate with protesters and their representatives, Avakov said. But for terrorists and armed separatists, there is only punishment....
CBS correspondent Clarissa Ward told CBS This Morning that she and her crew were stopped by pro-Russia insurgents at a checkpoint just outside Slovyansk, then taken to a nearby town where they were blindfolded tightly with masking tape. They were released several hours later, unharmed except for one man who was beaten....
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Hey lodi90, please don’t randomly message me on free republic on threads I have not posted in.
Thank you.
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Your mean like this unlawful combatant from KAZAN, RUSSIA?
First thing’s first, Yakunivich was NOT democratically elected, he took power in the same manner he did in 2004 before the Orange revolution.
Second thing, many of those who are rebelling against the current Ukrainian government are communists.
“I thought the terrorist were those who rioted in Kiev a month or so ago and overthrew the democratically elected government by force.”
No. Those were the Ukrainians who freed their country of a tyrannical government ruled by a Pro-Russian oligarchy linked thug president. The Ukrainian parliament ratified - unanimously - the actions of the Ukrainian protestors and impeached the thug president who fled, of course, to his masters in Russia.
“now they seem to want to use force against protestors, when I thought the use of force against protestors was what they were so mad about a month ago.”
There are no Russian “protestors”. They are armed and trained agents sponsored by the Russian government. They are armed with Ak-47s and AK-74s, rocket propelled grenades, and sometimes even armored personnel carriers, heavy machine guns and grenades. Some of the equipment is stolen Ukrainian equipment, but it has shown up too quickly and in too great quantities to be merely stolen equipment. Clearly Russia is supplying the Russian separatists.
The Ukrainians wanted to end a corrupt government which was pro-Russian. They did so. The Russians want to end the Ukraine.
If you can’t see the difference between those two things you have a greater problem than understanding the geo-political situation in Ukraine.
What is going on now is state sponsored terrorism. Vova belongs in Slobos old cell in the Hague.
“no... but I can imagine a few of the thugs which overthrew the democratically elected government laying dead in the street after the Russians tire of their tyranny.”
What tyranny? The new Ukrainian government hasn’t done anything to anyone. All it is trying to do is hold together the Ukraine and it has every right to do it.
I just can’t get over how many Freepers are stuck on stupid about this. They are buying the Russian propaganda hook, line and sinker.
Perhaps those thugs were the ones who eventually died in the fire.
There are some reports they were chased back to the Trade Union building.
I feel bad for those kids in the video mixed up in this. Dim bulb dupes. The commies always find and use them. Sad.
There’s plenty of photos and videos coming out about what happened yesterday. Nobody with a brain is buying your fairy tales.
Their propaganda dumping on Russia has lost it's steam. Just like Syria being confronted by a bombing attack by Obama and McCain, Americans are beginning to condemn what Obama and the EU are up to.
Russia won on the Syria issue and imo will win on preventing Ukraine from being annexed by NATO.
“Russia won on the Syria issue and imo will win on preventing Ukraine from being annexed by NATO.”
NATO has no power or ability to annex countries. Never had it. Never will. NATO is a voluntary military alliance. You would have come across as more credible if you said the EU was going to annex Ukraine. You would still be very wrong because no such ability exists for the EU, but at least your attempted satire would have made more sense.
Thank you for that excellent summary.
Ukraine wasn't being annexed by NATO. To say that Russia is preventing Ukraine from being annexed by NATO is nonsense.
And Syria has nothing to do with Ukraine.
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